Gunnar Kaiser

Gunnar Kaiser (born 1976 in Cologne) is a German teacher, writer and political blogger and YouTuber. Gunnar Kaiser studied philosophy, German philology, and Romance studies at the University of Cologne. After his state examination, he taught German and philosophy at grammar schools in Bonn and Cologne until 2021. In 2014, the teacher Kaiser started his activism in the anti-American extreme left movement. He was part of the "Mahnwachen für den Frieden" and supported Vladimir Putin in the first Ukraine conflict. Until 2019 his activities stayed largely unnoticed. His Videos and Blogs just had a few hundred followers. This changed in 2019. He published videos with well known leaders of the "neue Rechte", such as Martin Sellner, Oliver Janich, Shlomo Finkelstein, Schattenmacher and Daniele Ganser. The collaboration with this scene, conspirasy theories and his Videos against Covid subsequently led to a certain notoriety in this scene. Today Kaiser works at the mediaportal Apolut, the successor to the KenFM portal, which is monitored by the "Verfassungsschutz" the German counterpart to the FBI. Kaiser's first novel, Unter der Haut (English: Under The Skin), was published in 2018. The paperback edition was printed by German publishing house Piper. Piper Verlag quit working with Kaiser after his first book. His friend Milosz Matuschek (Guest Author at NZZ and Schweizer Monat) attests that Gunnar Kaiser has summed up the contradictions of the government measures surrounding funerals, schools, companies and restaurants by comparing them to anti-racism demonstrations in June 2020. Matuschek sees this as a colossal triumph in favor of skeptics of the danger of COVID-19. Matuschek is a close privat friend of Kaiser and they did a bunch of projects together, like "Appell für freie Debattenräume". After this article, NZZ stopped the short cooperation with both of them. In 2021 the NZZ Newspaper wrote "Kaiser is on a very wrong way" and attests him and his positions to be ideology-driven while criticising the Identitarian Movement.